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Smart home owners are already familiar with the conveniences of having a unified source of control for the entire home. Want to close the blinds because you are coming home early and do not want the house to...

Imagine if you came home one late evening, after talking with a friend about some odd occurrences plaguing your town. An old Native American boarding school had recently burned down, and people have been going...

Imagine being able to view the Earth from space, or to fly over Manhattan at dusk, or perhaps to even go back in time and experience life as a medieval king, all of these from the safety and comfort of your...

Researchers found that playing video games does affect your behavior, but the effects differ greatly depending on how long you play. During the study, researchers at the University of Oxford watched how...

When I recently read that a #GamerGate supporter threatened Anita Sarkeesian out of a speech at some college, I was furious. I wasn’t surprised that there was a backlash against the rising wave of feminist...

As Edward Snowden goes into hiding this week, many are rallying behind the ex-CIA employee who cast light on the NSA's Prism program. One group sympathetic to Snowden, and angry at the idea of the NSA...

A team of marine biologists discovered the first whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Anarctica, and thriving on its remains were nine new species of deep-sea creatures. One of those creatures happened to be...

Lunar dust was seen jumping between the moon's shadowed and sunlit areas. NASA scientists believe this is being caused by the dust being electrically charged. "The motion of an individual dust particle is...

Oh, those crazy folks at Hack A Day, arming the already frightening phenomena of the overly attached girlfriend with a car drone... They posted a spoof advertising video for a very real remote-controlled,...

As was anticipated by many, yesterday heralded Sony unveiling the new Playstation 4 in all its glory during a press conference in New York City. Along with repeated details of new titles which would be...

Flowlab is a web application currently in it's beta phase that allows you to make your own games from scratch completely in-browser. That's right - no downloads, no install, no cost, nothing. It's an...

Update 1: short-term memories are stored in the pre-frontal cortex, while the hippocampus stores long-term memories. The article has been updated with the correction. A new finding on how the brain stores...

As was expected from the global hacker organization, Anonymous has taken action in response to the death of Aaron Swartz. Swartz was facing charges that, if convicted, would have put him in prison for 35...

It's always a tragedy when someone loses a life, but few have received as much attention from the internet community as the untimely passing of Aaron Swartz. Swartz, a 26 year old internet rights activist...

When it was created, the Internet was launched as a classified military experiment, but nowadays it is a widely used tool that has a multitude of purposes. Recent cyberattacks on Saudi Arabia’s state oil...

Console versus PC, the battle is as old as the internet itself. While consoles have been championed as the torch bearers for the video game industry over the past few decades, the rising costs of consoles and...

Those of you looking to try your hand at making an RPG listen up. I've got a software here for you that'll let you make the RPGs you never knew you always could. It's called RPG Maker VX Ace, a game design...

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to become Edgar Allen Poe for a day, and say, chase Jack the Ripper across an alternate Victorian London, fortune shines on you. Upcoming indie game, EDGAR,...

The long-awaited second trailer for Grand Theft Auto V was released today by Rockstar, and it shows off the new California-like setting along with jets, car chases, and the usual eccentric characters the...

If you listen to the folks at Hollywood, piracy costs the film industry $6.1 billion a year. The music, software, and gaming industries also make similar claims to loss to the folks sitting at their computers...

Crusader Kings II is taking an odd turn with the upcoming Sunset Invasion DLC. It seems the Aztecs have launched a per-emptive counterattack and are on their way to Europe. The what-if scenario is an...

Imagine a world in which you look at a person and see everything about them: their name, age, occupation, address, yearly income, and all other personal information. How would that affect your view of the...

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